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From the series Bollywood Satirized

From the series
Bollywood Satirized


Text and images are excerpts from Contact Sheet 115, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Bollywood Cowboys and Indians from India. This and other publications can be purchased from the Light Work store.

ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW

BOLLYWOOD COWBOYS AND INDIANS FROM INDIA

January 14 to March 8, 2002
Contact Sheet 115


Born in England, raised in India, and currently residing in the United States, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has struggled with issues of identity and her relationship to the culture of her ancestry, her place of birth, and her current place of residence. This exhibition brings together two recent series of work, Bollywood Satirized and An Indian from India. Both series pose the question "Where do I belong?" which is a recurrent thread that runs throughout the artist's work.

Throughout her career Matthew has used photography as a means of making connections to her own cultural background, but also as a method of pointing out those aspects which distance her from the same heritage. In these two bodies of work Matthew looks to both historic and contemporary examples of how images continue to shape perception and reinforce stereotypes which she must fend off both as a woman and an Indian (from India).

 

 

From the series Bollywood Satirized

From the series
Bollywood Satirized


Major exhibitions at Light Work are published in Contact Sheet. Exclusively from Light Work, this publication is available by subscription only.